Some programs are worth a declaration of intent.
To inaugurate the 2022-2023 season of the Orchester de Paris (OP) at the Philharmonie, the musical director Klaus Mäkelä bet on audacity and generosity.
Generosity of a particularly dense program, highlighting the large full complement through two of the most physical works of the repertoire:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
, by Strauss, and the
Poem of Ecstasy
, by Scriabin.
Audacity of a back-to-school program featuring three contemporary works, including two premieres.
And not a single concerto with soloist!
The risk: a less full room.
But we obviously have to continue, this is the only way to make classical music a living art and not a heritage.
Born in Peru but educated in Finland, the forties Jimmy Lopez Bellido is a very skilful composer, a quality that can become a defect if the substance gives way to the effect.
Only seductive, his piece
Aino
was overshadowed by the dark intensity of
A Linea
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